The first thing I noticed is that Prime Minister May seemed to be moving back towards the tried and tested system of sorting out the details of policy initiatives in cabinet committees instead of the Cameron practice of launching new policies at half cock. There now seems to be such a cabinet committee on economic affairs.

I assume that there must be another on Brexit to disentangle not only the complex issues but to settle the silly squabbles between Ministers over who does what.

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My friends in the agricultural industry have also been much relieved by the Prime Minister's indication that as we approach the moment of Brexit there will be a study of how the existing EU subsidy will be replaced by a support scheme tailored to the needs of our industry and our countryside, (as Charles Moore suggested in the Telegraph on August 20), rather that those of the French. That sounds like a job for another cabinet committee.

I hope that we might also have a new comprehensive policy on energy. From what she has said about Hinkley Point there is hope that Mrs May is not wedded to the old fashioned foreign high cost technology which Mr Cameron had bought into as the easy option (rather than standing up to the Luddite opposition to fracking). There is a growing risk of facing power cuts in a spell of cloudy, cold, windless weather and reliance on the import of electricity from the continent.

All in all there is plenty for a tough, radical, no-nonsense Prime Minister to achieve, even without the Brexit agenda. The hardcore opponents of British self government, not least the Governor of the Bank of England, the CBI, the underperforming overpaid fat cats of many major companies, the BBC, Financial Times, the Islington Guardianista and of course EU Commission's pensioners increase the volume of their grim forebodings even as the economic news gets better.

However, even if most things go the right way for Mrs May's government and much as the disarray within the Parliamentary Labour may cause amusement to the Tories and political sketch writers, those of us with long memories see more to worry than to laugh about.

The purblind naivety of those in the Parliamentary Labour Party who put Corbyn's name on the ballot paper for the party leadership has opened the way for the hard Left of Militant and Trots who are now well set to seize control of the Labour Party. Their attacks on our democratic institutions will not be confined to Party games at Westminster. The wave of strikes on the railways are not directed so much at the shareholders, or for the benefit of the railwaymen, but at preventing tens of thousands of commuters from getting to work. The NHS strikes are not designed to improve pay and conditions of NHS workers but to leave the sick and the injured untreated and in pain

If the plan is carried through it will make the efforts of the local government workers union to bring down Labour's Jim Callaghan and Scargill's to bring down Thatcher look small beer. The strategy of Mr. Corbyn's friends is to convince the electors that no Conservative government would be allowed to deliver the services on which they and their families depend.

Where and when, I wonder will the leaders of the democratic centre make their stand? Or will the hide under the bed covers and re-read the grim prophecies of Orwell?